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[–] starman@programming.dev 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)

Aux is more similar to Nix, than Guix is.

Guix uses the same concepts, but still is very different.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 18 points 6 months ago (14 children)

What a horrible name. I literally had to search for "aux nix" to find a Reddit post mentioning the URL. Every other search term combination was giving me results for ps aux.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Same. Short it nice, but it has to be unique and memorable too. Aux is an already existing word.

Things that don't exist yet

  • Lunix - sounds like linux and nix just with i and u swapped
  • Originix - very close to https://orignix.com/ but not the same
  • Nunix - New Nix
  • Froxin - Jumble of fork + nix
  • Apenix - Apex of nix
  • Nirofs - Nix Is a Read Only FileSystem

Suprisingly already exist

  • Nuxor - Lindt Nuxor is a chocolate
  • Aunix - auxiliary nix - https://www.aunixinternational.com/ already exists though
  • XiniX - a mirror of nix (xinix.nl exists though)
  • Lixin - shit this also exists as a brand
  • Fornix - fork + nix - is part of our brain
  • nixzen - spanish company
  • zenix - Zenith of nix - another spanish company?
  • Apaux - Apex of auxiliary nix - surprisingly is a band
  • Araknix - some toy
  • naaix - sounds like nice - is a damn boat company

Probably some LLM could come up with something too given a good prompt.

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[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

AFAIK LUnix exists as the "little Unix" project aiming to run on the Commodore 6502 computers.

There's even a video where someone got it to run on a Famicom.

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